Egypt

[Wizard]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The army wasn't called in, it inserted itself into Cairo to keep the peace because the police force largely abandoned their posts.

"After a day of increasingly violent protests throughout Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak ordered the military into the streets to reinforce police struggling to contain one of the most serious challenges to his long and autocratic rule."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/wo...t.html?_r=1&hp

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"President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt deployed the nation’s military and imposed a near-total blackout on communications to save his authoritarian government of nearly 30 years."